GOD GAVE ME A CITY AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF HIGHWAY ROBBERS, AMONG PYTHONS AND POISONOUS SNAKES AND I JUMPED (KEYED INTO IT) BY FAITH
WE ARE WHERE WE ARE NOW BY FAITH AND WE HAVEN’T ARRIVED YET, WE ARE GOING FARTHER STILL.
GOD REQUIRES THAT YOU HAVE THE FAITH TO BE CARRIED ON EAGLE’S WINGS BECAUSE THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.
YOU MUST DETERMINE TO LIVE A LIFE OF HOLINESS; THE EAGLE THAT WANTS TO CARRY YOU IS THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL
THE demons IN THE MAD MAN OF GADARA DIDN’T ALLOW HIM TO ASK FOR HELP BUT JESUS KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON AND HE INTERVENED
GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU ARE PASSING THROUGH – YOUR PROBLEMS, BURDENS AND BATTLES AND HE WILL INTERVENE
ANYTIME GOD WANTS TO DELIVER AND THE ENEMY IS RELUCTANT, HE USES FORCE. HE BROUGHT A VIOLENT DELIVERANCE TO ISRAEL
WHEN GOD HAS NOTICED YOU, HEARD YOUR CRY, KNOWS WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH, HE BRINGS DELIVERANCE.
GOD KNOWS WHEN YOUR CASE IS BEYOND HUMAN HELP AND HE PAYS YOU A VISIT
IF GOD IS GOING TO CARRY YOU ON EAGLE’S WINGS IT CAN ONLY MEAN THAT HE HAS HEARD YOUR CRY AND WILL SEND YOU HELP
WHEN GOD NOTICES YOU, YOUR LIFE CAN NEVER REMAIN THE SAME – THINGS CHANGE FOR THE BEST
– Pastor E. A. Adeboye on “ON EAGLE’S WINGS” at 2024 March Special Holy Ghost Service || RCCG Day 2 || 2nd March, 2024
Exodus 19:1, 3-6. My children who spoke yesterday have done a lot of work so they have made my task easy this morning. They’ve defined who the Eagle is, but we are not talking about ordinary bird, we are talking about the Almighty himself. They’ve spoken to you about how strong the Eagle is, how far the Eagle can see, how fast the Eagle can be, how long it takes before the Eagle becomes tired, they’ve spoken a lot to you about the Eagle and the Eagle’s Wings, that’s why we need to hear their sermons again. Church Gist. But what I want to discuss is that we just go back to the history of the children of Israel and see what led to the statement that God has made here to let you see clearly that this theme is very prophetic. God has somebody in mind, just someone special, peculiar to God, thats why he arranged this meeting. I believe that the fellow will know himself or herself and within the next one hour that fellow will have travelled a long distance.
When God was about to bring the children of Israel to himself on Eagle’s wings, if you hear him talking to Moses in Exodus 3, he told Moses, “the reason I’m come is because I have seen the sufferings of the children of Israel, I have heard their cry, I know what they’re going through. So I have come to deliver them.” Tonight, the first thing God is going to let you realize is that at long last he has noticed you because when we talk about seeing, there is ordinary seeing, there is noticing. John 5:2-9. When God notices you, your life can never remain the same. He noticed a man who had been sick for 38 years and that day, that man was healed. Mark 2:1-12; John 9:1-7. Church Gist. When God notices you, things change. You know what? He has noticed somebody here tonight. May be he noticed you while you were worshipping him because the Bible says, he is looking for worshippers. Somebody had worshipped God more than others and God had noticed. May be he had noticed you while you were praying or giving your offering. When he notices you, things can never be the same again. The Almighty God has noticed someone and he is going to notice another one.
I told you the story: we were in the first auditorium and it was time to pray and I said, everybody should be praying to God and so I closed my eyes too because I need help from God. Suddenly God said to me, Son open your eyes. I almost told him, Lord I’m praying. When I opened my eyes, he pointed at a woman in the crowd, wet with tears. He said to me, go and tell her, weep not. I went there, tapped her by the shoulders and said to her, “My Daddy asked me to tell you, weep not.” Suddenly, her eyes brightened up. I didn’t know why she was weeping, I just did what God asked me to do. Church Gist. The following year, there was a group of people lined up before me and one by one I was attending to them. Then it was the turn of this woman, she said, “Sir, you don’t remember me?” “I’m sorry ma, how many people will I remember?” She said, I was the one who was weeping and your God told me to stop weeping. She said, for years I was barren and I came to that meeting with a threat from my in-laws that if I don’t give their son a child within a year they will kick me out of the house. She said, that’s why I was weeping. I looked at her and I saw on her right hand she was carrying a baby, on the left she was carrying another baby.
– May I prophesy to someone tonight, stop weeping because God has noticed you!
The second thing that God said after he said, I’ve seen the sufferings of children of Israel, is “I have heard their cry.” If God is going to carry you on Eagle’s wings it can only mean that he has heard your cry. When God hears your cry for help, he sends help. Church Gist. Mark 10:46-52. I believe God is about to hear the prayer of somebody tonight because when he hears you, he turns the tide. 2 Kings 4:1-7; Jeremiah 33:3. When God hears your prayer, he responds by showing you how mighty he is. He uses all his might to respond to you.
Unfortunately, it is not every time people cry to him that he hears because it said, you must call on the Lord while he is near. Fortunately he is near tonight and when you cry to him tonight, he will respond. Some of you will remember the story of the man who was a cripple and his friends carried him here. We were in the Old Auditorium and the crowd was many and so by the time they arrived, miracles were already happening around the altar and his friends dropped him at the back of the auditorium. They told him, we’ve already dropped you here, we can’t carry you through the crowd. They dropped him and he cried to God. Church Gist. “God, I’m here o, they’ve dropped me here but I know you know I am here.” God heard and immediately God spoke to me from the altar. God said, there’s someone there who said, God you see me here. God asked me to tell him, yes I’ve seen you. Immediately, his leg straightened out, he was able to get up, he was beginning to dance. When the program was over, his friends came to look for him where they dropped him, they couldn’t find him there. So he tapped them from behind, are you looking for me? There’s someone here tonight, by tomorrow morning, it’s not where they left you that they will find you!
The third thing that happened before God sent the Eagle is that he told Moses, I have seen, heard and I know their sufferings. The Almighty God wants somebody to know tonight that he knows what you’re passing through. He knows what are your problems, burdens, he knows the battles you’re fighting that you cannot possibly win alone and whenever God knows what you’re going through, after noticing you, after hearing your cry, he intervenes. Mark 5:2-20. Do you know the mad man of Gadara didn’t pray? When he saw Jesus coming, before he could say anything, he saw Jesus, fell at his feet, by the time he opened his mouth, the demons inside began to talk. Church Gist. They didn’t allow him to ask for help but Jesus knew what was going on and he intervened. Tonight, the God you have been serving all these days, the God who knows the problems you can’t even share is going to intervene. God knows when your case is beyond human help. In a situation like that, he pays you a visit. Genesis 18:1-14. God knows that there are some of us, our situation will defy even the faith of the Pastor. Ezekiel 37:1-10. But God knows, he knows what you’re passing through even if your problem is beyond what any pastor can handle, God will intervene tonight!
I told you the story of a woman who was barren for several and the Pastor had been praying and praying and one day the Pastor said, woman whats your case because every other barren person I prayed for, they are already rejoicing with their children. The woman said, oh, when I was a student and became pregnant and I tried to abort, by the time I got to the hospital to save my life, the doctors took out my womb. The Pastor said, you mean you have no womb? …and you’ve been asking me to pray for you to be pregnant? She said, Pastor, you’re the one who said with God nothing shall be impossible. Church Gist. Pastor said, I see, thank you. From that day onwards, when the Pastor sees her coming the Pastor will dodge. One day the woman caught the Pastor dodging her. She turned her face away from pastor to God and cried unto God, “I’m coming to you directly now not through the Pastor. Help me!” That night she had a dream: she was standing naked and a huge man came in through the door, holding the skin of an animal. She was so frightened she couldn’t move. The man got close to her and wrapped the skin of the animal round her waist and disappeared. Church Gist. By the following day, she woke up already menstruating. By the last time I think we heard from her she already had 5 children. When your case us beyond any human assistance, the God who knows will send help and help is coming the way of somebody tonight!
The next thing that happened is that God now told Moses, “Okay, I’ve seen, heard, I know what’s going on, I have come to deliver.” When God has noticed you, heard your cry, knows what you’re going through, he brings deliverance. The Almighty God is bringing deliverance to somebody tonight. Occasionally my children will say, the one who says a proper Amen God attends to the fellow! The deliverance God brought to Israel was a violent one. Exodus 12:1-36. Church Gist. Before he could carry them on Eagle’s wings he subdued their enemies. He gave them something that they cannot toy with. In Yoruba land when they want to say that your enemy is subdued they say the fellow had been given something that he will worship. They’ve given him a problem so big he won’t have time for you. The Egyptians had to beg the children of Israel, please go or we are all dead. God made a promise in Isaiah 49:24-26. When God wants to deliver and the enemy is reluctant, he uses force.
Some of you probably heard it – the story: a man came here from Abeokuta with his wife. So everything he ever tried to do, no progress no success and he has discovered that the wife is a witch and she’s the one stopping his progress and so he has brought her for deliverance. The woman was very angry. “Don’t mind him Sir; it is his mother who is a witch not me.” I mean, she was very angry. So I said, please don’t let us quarrel, I mean, don’t mind your husband. Let’s do it this way: if you’re not a witch, everything in your life will just keep on getting better – that’s my prayer. Church Gist. But if you’re a witch, I’m going to bind the demon in you” and God had revealed to me that it was a snake inside her. You dare not say that because if she sues you, the snake will not appear on x-ray. I said, “Ma, I’m not saying you’re a witch o but do you agree that we bind any evil force that is in you just in case? The thing inside it won’t be able to go out to excrete so if it is bound it will be eating you from inside, excreting in you. But then of course, since you’re not a witch anyway.” She said, yeah go ahead, pray. We prayed. By the time her husband brought her back, she had become almost twice as big or even more. Then she was ready for deliverance.
– Every force that had been troubling you, because God wants to take you on eagle’s wings, God will deal with them violently tonight!
Prayer Point:
* Father, whatever method you will use to deliver me, do it tonight.
When God finally picks you up on eagle’s wing, he takes you to a point where you are beyond the reach of the enemy. After he picked up the children of Israel, after delivering them violently and they tried to follow them, by the time we got to Exodus 14:1-28, Moses had spoken the mind of God to them. Church Gist. He said the enemies you have seen up till tonight, you will never see them again! When God picks you up on eagle’s wings, he takes you to a position so high that you’re far far beyond the touch of the enemy. My children have dealt with that yesterday, they talked about you being so high that from there you will be dealing with the enemies below. So I’ll just move on.
I’ll give you just one illustration: again, a couple came to Church at Ebute-Metta and after sometime we were seeing only the brother, the sister wasn’t coming. We followed up – “Sister why are we not seeing you in Church and your husband is coming, he’s getting happier by the day?” Church Gist. She said, since I started coming to your Church, I could no longer fly at night.
– I decree to somebody here tonight, if there’s any witch in your family, from tonight onward he won’t fly again!
So he sees, he hears, he knows, he delivers violently, he brings you to a level where enemies can’t touch you anymore.
When God carries you, He causes you to reach your goal speedily. Genesis 41:1-44. God can grab you from the very very lowest point on Earth and put you on the throne. 1 Samuel 2:8. Church Gist. Or maybe you’re not 100 per cent on the ground, may be you’re already great it’s just that he knows you’re not complete, your joy is not full, he can grab you and move you from great to complete so that your joy suddenly becomes full.
2 Kings 4:8-17. The story of the Shunammite woman – she was already great but she was barren. In a single day, her barrenness was taken care of and her joy became full. Church Gist. All of you who are already great and there is one thing that is not allowing your joy to be full, in the name of the one who sent me, as a result of tonight’s meeting, very very soon, your joy will overflow.
Prayer point 5
* Father, let my joy be full.
So when God carries you on eagle’s wings, He causes you to have sweat-less success. You can succeed after a lot of struggles. He placed a curse on Adam and said, in the sweat of your face thou shall you eat. Church Gist. But when God carries you on eagle’s wings, you succeed without sweating. You reach your goal effortlessly.
Like I said before, somebody wanting to go to Ibadan, you can trek from Lagos to Ibadan – you will arrive. You can even ride a bicycle – you will arrive. But when God carries you, it’s like travelling in an aeroplane. Church Gist. You arrive fresh, no sweat at all. I believe sincerely that as a result of what God will do in your life tonight, your colleagues will soon be coming to ask you, how do you do it?
When the children of Israel were going to overcome their enemies by the Red Sea, Moses said to them, just stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. 2 Chronicles 20:1-30, 2 Kings 7:1-20. Church Gist. One of the stories in the Bible that I like so much was that Solomon was going about his own business in the palace, just having a nice time and one fellow was declaring himself to be king, unknown to Solomon and there was a little politics in the Palace, the next thing Solomon saw was that he had become king. He didn’t do anything about it, he just became king. He succeeded without a sweat.
– In the name that is above every other name I decree to somebody here tonight, even before you get to the door, it will open unto you!
Prayer Point 6
* Father, from now on in my life, no more sweating, I want sweat-less success
What is it that God requires from you?
1. Faith: You see because when the Eagle comes and spreads his wings and says, “come on, climb on me,” how you react is important. You may say, “mmm mmm (no)what are you trying to do? You want to carry me into the air? No, leave me on the ground here.” Church Gist. The Bible says the Just shall live by faith. You know it took a lot of faith for the children of Israel to pass through the Red Sea. The Bible says the water was a hill on their right and a hill on their left. Moses said, now go forward. They could have said hey? Go into the middle of this thing? What if the water comes back? But they moved forward by faith. God will require faith from you tonight because the Bible says the just shall live by faith.
You all know the story of my coming here: when I asked God for a house and he says he has decided to give me a city,” then brought me here and we bought a little more than 2 hectares here and he said that’s the City – at the headquarters of highway robbers, among pythons and poisonous snakes, no electricity, no water, but he said that’s the City and I jumped by faith. Church Gist. We are where we are now by faith and we haven’t arrived yet, we are going farther still. You’re going to need faith tonight because the Just shall live by faith.
2. A determination that from now on, for your own sake, you will live a life of Holiness because the Eagle that wants to carry you is the Holy One of Israel. He won’t allow any unclean thing to climb him. 1 Peter 1:15-16. The reason he wants you to be holy is so that you can climb on the Holy One so that he can carry you. Church Gist. I know that my son had made an altar call and several of you had given your life to Jesus and I’m extremely happy. But there might be some of us here who didn’t decide then. Holiness is for your own good, not for God. He wants you to be holy so he can carry you and there are some of us that will claim they are already born again and we are still living in sin. You’re not deceiving the pastor, you’re deceiving yourself and you’re cheating yourself.
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